Happy Chanukah!
[NOTE: This is a slightly edited version of a previous post.] This is the first night of Chanukah, and I wish everyone a happy one. Chanukah is about a successful revolt and a miracle of light: The miracle of the … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Jews
The new whiteness of the Jews
Please contemplate this: On October 17th, the New York Times published an op-ed celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Million Man March that neglected to mention the anti-Semitic history of its organizer, Louis Farrakhan. In response, former Times editorial board … Continue reading →
Hatred of Trump leads to liberal confusion about what to do: Bari Weiss gets it, and she also doesn’t
I think Bari Weiss’ new Tablet piece is an illustration of the kind of confusion a great many liberal Democrats feel these days. For example, Weiss puts her finger squarely on the fact that leftist Democrats such as AOC are … Continue reading →
Jews can demonstrate, too
I wonder whether they will get a dispensation from the rules against large gatherings, too, because it’s a protest march: Hundreds of members of the Borough Park Orthodox community took to the streets Tuesday night, defying orders to disperse and … Continue reading →
Andrew Cuomo, who had no problem with mass demonstrations for BLM…
…has very different rules for ultra-Orthodox Jews. Also please see this article for a very full discussion of Cuomo’s press conference. During it, Cuomo used an old photo and said it was new (he used others that purportedly really are … Continue reading →
Dealing with the NYC public school system: “white adjacent”
One of the benefits of YouTube is that it enables us to hear reasonable people talking reasonably about a host of topics that are usually discussed in a manner so unreasonable as to conjure up associations with the world in … Continue reading →
Of course, it’s the fault of the Jews
That is, according to Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters. You can read a lot more at the link. I actually saw the accusation early on, long before Waters was spouting it. It was inevitable, was it not? Is there nothing the … Continue reading →
Orthodox Jews in NY fight back against their oppressor de Blasio
Things getting heated in #Williamsburg #Brooklyn when local resident furious that lock to park was broken to allow children to play. Thousands protest each day with approval of @NYCMayor, but 100 children can't play in a park. pic.twitter.com/yNMxpZfG75 — NYC … Continue reading →
De Blasio and “the Jewish community”: a tale of two tweets
Nothing to see here pic.twitter.com/kJHHgjeRAA — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) April 29, 2020 The genesis of de Blasio’s admonition to “the Jewish community” – a pretty diverse group, and in NYC a fairly large one – was apparently a funeral for … Continue reading →
Reading Maus
[NOTE: Years ago I downsized and got rid of a lot of books. But since I’d had a ton of them to begin with, I’ve still got a lot, although nothing like the original number. And of course, I keep … Continue reading →
Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day
I’m a bit late with this, but I thought that for yesterday’s Remembrance Day I’d link to a two-part series of mine. I’ve written many posts on the subject of the Holocaust, some of which you can find by doing … Continue reading →
Did you know that black people should never be accused of anti-Semitism?
Case in point: University of New Hampshire physics professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein took to Twitter on New Year’s Eve to explain why anti-Semitism is exclusively a “white” problem, and why it is inappropriate to discuss anti-Semitic acts committed by black people. … Continue reading →